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Re: [Xen-devel] Is continuous replication of state possible?

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Subject: Re: [Xen-devel] Is continuous replication of state possible?
From: Mark Williamson <Mark.Williamson@xxxxxxxxxxxx>
Date: Fri, 7 Jan 2005 15:43:04 +0000
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> I've been playing around with Xen a couple of months now and I am very
> much impressed. I am particularly found of the "live migration" feature.
> I was wondering if it is possible to make a instance continuously
> replicate the state of another instance and then make the other instance
> run if the original instance fails.

Work on this is ongoing and should make things like failover and majority 
voting possible.

> This could mean we could deploy Linux in enviroments dominated by Tandem
> and IBM mainframes. :-)

Yup :-)

Mark


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